Contractors and mechanics oh my!

January 25th, 2006 · No Comments

The floors were supposed to take two and a half days, instead they took six days, and several nasty phone calls. They came out very good. The whole first floor is tile now and the library on the second floor is tile also. The tile guys would show up at 10 am one would work and two would supervise. Then they left before 4 pm every day.

Sat. around noon they finished except for tacking down the hall rug. That guy didn’t show. Called around noon Monday to ask where the hell was he and why hadn’t they gotten a hold of me? Salesman calls back two hours later and assured me he would be there 930 am Tue. 930 am comes and no rug guy… 10am no rug guy… I’m so not amused.

I leave and on the way to go grocery shopping the brakes went on the car putting me in an even finer mood than I had started the day.

The rug guy calls says ‘what time do you want us, tell us and we’ll be there’ I says 3 and not a minute later. He says he’ll check if that is ok and call back. { What happened to anytime you want lady ? } I says if you’re not there at 3 someone else will do it, I’ll deduct his cost and some other amount for aggravation from the money I still owe.

He calls back and leaves long apology on answering service. So I get the groceries home. Roll car a mile down the road in first gear to the closest auto place pumping the brakes the entire ride, run, get home at 3pm.

Rug guy is there. Cool. But he has no tools. Not cool and WTF? Has to go to store and buy tools.

Then auto guy calls says we can’t fix your car. I says your ad says you are a full service garage. He says yes but not brake lines. *(^%$@@## I hated to bring it to one of those chain places anyhow. I just didn’t dare go wandering in a car with no brakes. Had it towed to a real mechanic. It’ll be pricey but should be done by the weekend. And now I have found a local mechanic. Which had been on my to to list for a while.

The roofers are still here and the sun is going down as I type this. That was supposed to take one day, today is day three. It is coming out very nice, but my gardens are thoroughly trashed. I’m hoping they really do finish tonight I’m dying to get out there and clean up the gardens and get some more seeds planted.

The cats are traumatized spending most of their time hiding under the bed in the guest room. It’ll sure be nice to have everything back to normal.

Turns out when we put the gym back together we discovered we had left a pulley off the weight machine, no wonder it never worked right. It works great now. Trying to settle back into running and life.

Husband has been successfully hiding at work all week. Wait till I tell him I have 4 bags of rubbish the rug guys left that we are returning to floor store this weekend.